Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, A Sind Saint., sentence 65
Sehwan was, however, already a holy town and its worldly minded fakirs dreaded that the advent of so famous a mendicant would reduce their earnings.
Who acts: Sehwan, worldly minded fakirs, advent · What happens: be, dread, reduce · To what, where: holy town, earnings
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, A Sind Saint.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sehwan, worldly minded fakirs, advent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sehwan | Sehwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 town | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 town | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dreaded | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fakirs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | worldly | worldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fakirs | amod |
| 13 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fakirs | amod |
| 14 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dreaded | nsubj |
| 15 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 town | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 reduce | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 advent | det |
| 18 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reduce | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mendicant | case |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 famous | advmod |
| 21 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mendicant | amod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mendicant | det |
| 23 | mendicant | mendicant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 advent | nmod |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 reduce | aux |
| 25 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dreaded | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 earnings | nmod:poss |
| 27 | earnings | earning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 reduce | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sehwan | a holy town | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dread | past | town's worldly minded fakirs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reduce | would | the advent of a famous mendicant | miles's earnings | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer earning=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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